SmileyChris

Recaptcha

So, trawling Digg today I came across Recaptcha - a neat site which not only offers you CAPTCHA generation and validation, but takes the words from scanned books so that users are actually helping digitise books while they validate that they are indeed human!

So, since I was told that I "really should have comments" on my blog which nobody reads, I thought it would be a good exercise to implement this in Django using the soon-to-be-standard newforms.

If you're a Django-ite, you may be interested to see the code of this module (feel free to use it).

Kind of a disappointment that I can't see the original scanned words, it'd be nice to be able to be the guy that solves an unreadable word, rather than just typing the same incorrectly read word that everyone else has to type.

Yup, I could have made the process different - I thought it was a bit easier for people to type it in as part of the comment step though. Perhaps my wording could be clearer on what you are meant to do rather than making an ass out of you and umption.

Hey there, hope you don't mind me using your form to test :) I've got someone else saying I'm not a human, consistently, so I thought I'd check someone eles's form to see if their recaptcha works.. and you were up there in google. ;) Thanks, and feel free to delete this.